diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 2adf4a3fa..1ec8f8e75 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Release 0.6.7 (in development)
 ==============================
 
+* #440: Remove usage of a Python >= 2.5 API in the ``literalinclude``
+  directive.
+
 
 Release 0.6.6 (May 25, 2010)
 ============================
diff --git a/sphinx/directives/code.py b/sphinx/directives/code.py
index b4375a98c..50ebcfde4 100644
--- a/sphinx/directives/code.py
+++ b/sphinx/directives/code.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class LiteralInclude(Directive):
         codec_info = codecs.lookup(encoding)
         try:
             f = codecs.StreamReaderWriter(open(fn, 'U'),
-                    codec_info.streamreader, codec_info.streamwriter, 'strict')
+                    codec_info[2], codec_info[3], 'strict')
             lines = f.readlines()
             f.close()
         except (IOError, OSError):